The Federal Highway Administration has awarded a total of $8.8 million to eight states and the District of Columbia for demonstration projects that propose to use state-of-the-art technologies for highway and bridge infrastructure durability, safety and asset management. The awards, announced Aug. 22, went to 10 projects and come from FHWA’s Accelerated Innovation Deployment Demonstration program, known as AID.
AID was initiated in February 2014. Since then, FHWA has awarded 127 grants, totaling more than $95.7 million. The program ”provides incentive grants and other resources to offset the risk of implementing a transportation innovation,” FHWA said.
